Furious. Why in the world would a parent send a peanut snack to a peanut-free classroom?

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Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with children these days? Peanut allergies, autism. it's terrible!

Peanut allergies are probably due to the environment being too clean. The immune system overreacts when it gets a new protein exposure (peanuts) because it's been sitting around with nothing to do for a long time.

Autism is likely due to some environmental exposure switching on certain genes in some kids. One culprit may be flame retardant chemicals in furniture and pajamas. (It builds up in breast tissue, BTW, and gets into breast milk so the baby is exposed to both his environment and his food.)

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Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. I'm so sick of you allergy mommies demanding that the world bend over backwards for your precious.

I agree. We should eliminate all tree nut and peanut restrictions. People can bring whatever they want for lunch, eat where the want. But if your food causes someone else to have a allergic reaction that causes them to go to the hospital, they get to charge you with assault. If someone dies because you brought an allergen in, then they get to charge you with manslaughter. In the case of kids, we'll hold the parents of the child who brought the allergen to school responsible and charge them.

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so ridiculously sad. You legitimately feel that eating a granola bar should be punishable by arrest? This can't be real.

If you know someone is allergic and intentionally expose them or risk exposure, it's negligent at a minimum and intentionally reckless at worst. If they are killed, you deserve to face a manslaughter charge.

Kids die from allergic reactions How hard is that to understand?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. I'm so sick of you allergy mommies demanding that the world bend over backwards for your precious.

I agree. We should eliminate all tree nut and peanut restrictions. People can bring whatever they want for lunch, eat where the want. But if your food causes someone else to have a allergic reaction that causes them to go to the hospital, they get to charge you with assault. If someone dies because you brought an allergen in, then they get to charge you with manslaughter. In the case of kids, we'll hold the parents of the child who brought the allergen to school responsible and charge them.

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so ridiculously sad. You legitimately feel that eating a granola bar should be punishable by arrest? This can't be real.

If you know someone is allergic and intentionally expose them or risk exposure, it's negligent at a minimum and intentionally reckless at worst. If they are killed, you deserve to face a manslaughter charge.

Kids die from allergic reactions How hard is that to understand?

If they are that sensitive, their parents should be responsible for keeping them away from people or places they can be exposed. Home school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're furious though? It's not a good thing but this is not something to be furious about.

Get a life OP. I would hate to see you if something really bad happened in your life. Maybe you need therapy?

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Anonymous wrote:If this is happening frequently, may be you should consider homeschooling.

I agree. Plus don't travel by airplane. College is out of the question too.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh get over yourself. I'm so sick of you allergy mommies demanding that the world bend over backwards for your precious.

I agree. We should eliminate all tree nut and peanut restrictions. People can bring whatever they want for lunch, eat where the want. But if your food causes someone else to have a allergic reaction that causes them to go to the hospital, they get to charge you with assault. If someone dies because you brought an allergen in, then they get to charge you with manslaughter. In the case of kids, we'll hold the parents of the child who brought the allergen to school responsible and charge them.

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so ridiculously sad. You legitimately feel that eating a granola bar should be punishable by arrest? This can't be real.

No, I wasn't serious. I was going for hyperbole. But if an HIV-positive person can be charged with sexual assault for not revealing their HIV status or a person who distributes anthrax through the mail can be charged with attempted murder then it's not that far of a stretch that if you injure or harm someone by bringing in a potentially lethal substance (to them) that they can be charged. The point is that these allergens are known to cause very serious medical conditions or potentially be lethal to some people. And young students do not necessarily have the experience and knowledge to adequately protect themselves, so it is incumbent upon the school and the adult staff to provide as safe an environment for them as possible.

Once you get up to the high school and college level, the young adults should be experienced enough to know themselves and what they should to do to protect themselves from exposure to an allergen and how to respond if they have an allergic reaction. However, a child between preschool and tween age may not have the experience or attention to protect themselves which is why such policies are put into place.

I really think that nut-free policies in lower schools are important and neither of my kids has any allergies, but I've known a number of people with severe allergies to either tree nuts or peanuts.

Ridiculous. You would never get the legislation beyond the nut lobby industry. And it's not just peanuts, but all types of nuts.

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I'm a pretty considerate person, but the issue is a few bad apples ruin it for everyone. I know a mother that made her child's preschool go peanut free, not a table, not a classroom, the whole school. Every meeting of our mother's group became peanut-free, snacks were banned at playgroups... This same mother takes her child to a local frozen yogurt place that has peanuts as a topping & a flavor. She says it is okay because he "loves" the place so they use a disposable spoon & just avoid the peanuts.

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If you have a child with a severe allergy, they should not be participating in a group snack.

If the peanuts were in another child's lunch, then your child should be taught not to eat things from other people's lunches.

If your child cannot be in a room where peanuts may have been at one point, and may not touch anyone who recently ate peanuts, you may need to reconsider sending them to school.

If someone out there is still panicking, keep this in mind: very few people in the U.S. die of allergy-induced anaphylaxis per year. The internet has simply made it much easier to find out about horror stories, and much easier for parents to learn about symptoms of allergies, get tested, and get diagnosed.

[Anonymous]

Peanut allergies are probably due to the environment being too clean. The immune system overreacts when it gets a new protein exposure (peanuts) because it's been sitting around with nothing to do for a long time.

Wow! No danger for my kids, then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is nuts

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a child with a severe allergy, they should not be participating in a group snack.

If the peanuts were in another child's lunch, then your child should be taught not to eat things from other people's lunches.

If your child cannot be in a room where peanuts may have been at one point, and may not touch anyone who recently ate peanuts, you may need to reconsider sending them to school.

If someone out there is still panicking, keep this in mind: very few people in the U.S. die of allergy-induced anaphylaxis per year. The internet has simply made it much easier to find out about horror stories, and much easier for parents to learn about symptoms of allergies, get tested, and get diagnosed.

What is WITH the goddamn snacks every five minutes in the schools anyways? When I was growing up, we didn't do all that. We didn't do the birthday party every other day, moms didn't have to bring in the bazillion cookies and cupcakes... Prior to the last decade or two, kids grew up just fine without a million snacks.

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Anonymous wrote:If you have a child with a severe allergy, they should not be participating in a group snack.

If the peanuts were in another child's lunch, then your child should be taught not to eat things from other people's lunches.

If your child cannot be in a room where peanuts may have been at one point, and may not touch anyone who recently ate peanuts, you may need to reconsider sending them to school.

If someone out there is still panicking, keep this in mind: very few people in the U.S. die of allergy-induced anaphylaxis per year. The internet has simply made it much easier to find out about horror stories, and much easier for parents to learn about symptoms of allergies, get tested, and get diagnosed.

What is WITH the goddamn snacks every five minutes in the schools anyways? When I was growing up, we didn't do all that. We didn't do the birthday party every other day, moms didn't have to bring in the bazillion cookies and cupcakes... Prior to the last decade or two, kids grew up just fine without a million snacks.

+1 Why are you all having to bring in all these snacks. Why do parents have to bring a snack for the whole class? At our school, there is none of that. Kids bring their own individual snacks. There is no outside food for parties. I love it and my kids have never complained about it. Birthdays and holidays are marked in other ways.

[Anonymous]

Are some school systems peanut free? Past preschool? Ours is not. I send PBJ for lunch often. Just as i got as a kid. Im sure there are kids in our class with nut allergies, or at least the school.

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What is WITH the goddamn snacks every five minutes in the schools anyways? When I was growing up, we didn't do all that. We didn't do the birthday party every other day, moms didn't have to bring in the bazillion cookies and cupcakes... Prior to the last decade or two, kids grew up just fine without a million snacks.

Really? We did. Every kid who had a birthday in elementary school brought in cupcakes and candy for the whole class, except me. This was in the 1970s.

Whereas now almost nobody does, at least not in my children's elementary school classes.

[Anonymous]

OP needs to clarify- her title says peanut-free classroom- so does she really mean just the classroom itself or the entire school? And does she mean a snack for the entire class or just for the other child?

I have a child with peanut and treenut allergies. He is still young, but I've learned that the only person you can trust to keep your child safe is yourself, and sometimes you even fail at that. Although DH and I read labels, there have been times when we've purchased something and completely missed that it was cross-contaminated. I would never trust that other parents would respect or understand peanut-free classrooms and even a parent with the best of intentions can forget.

This post was a good reminder for me that DH and I need to keep hammering home with DS (who'll be starting K in the fall) what to do if he is near nuts and to only eat what we've provide him.

Regardless of who's in the right and the wrong, I'm sorry, OP, if your child went through that situation. I know it was scary.